CAPPADOCIAN SLAVERY.

Cappadocia is a country of Asia; it furnishes a great number of slaves. This appears from these words of Tully, “ You would have thought him a Cappadocian just purchased out of a string of slaves and from this passage in Perseus—

Go miser, go; for lucre sell thy soul;
Truck wares for wares, and trudge from pole to pole;
That men may say, when thou are dead and gone,
See what a vast estate he left his son How large a family of brawny knaves,
Well fed, and fat as Cappadocian slaves.
Dryden.

We may add to this what Horace observes, that the king of Cappadocia, though destitute of money, was rich in slaves.

Mancipiis locuples eget æris Cappadocum Rex.

M. Dacier observes, that whilst Lucullus was in Cappadocia, an ox sold but for sixpence, and a man for twenty-four pence. Learned prelates will sometimes libel their own religion, by stating that its spirit is not inconsistent with slavery. How comes it then that, wherever embraced, it has gradually superseded the systematic slavery of the ancient world? In fact, in its essence, to say nothing of its practice, being a religion of the purest equality, how can it be otherwise?—Ed. ⁷⁶